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“On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?”
“Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to me...”
“Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our fa...”
“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”
“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.”
“Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.”
“Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.”
“I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.”
“I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the...”
“I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.”
“There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect si...”
“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies. ”
“In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; ...”
“It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old and young, are spiritual and sensitive, tender and gentle. They have a kind, nurturing nat...”
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
“In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, pa...”
“One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.”
“Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a sc...”
“We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.”
“Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.”
